Square Street Gallery is pleased to present "Skin in Limbo” by Emily Kueis, marking the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. At its centre are three new large-scale oil paintings.

Shown alongside recent works on canvas and paper, they form a kind of metaphysical

landscape shaped by a pictorial language that unfolds like a diary, reflecting Kueis’ shifting

sense of self, place, and identity as a painter in Hong Kong.

Kueis’ practice fluidly combines abstraction and figuration. Her distorted, floating figures

appear suspended in indeterminate, cosmic-like spaces. These partial bodies, often depicted in precarious or contorted poses, explore the tension between physical and psychological boundaries. Here, flesh becomes not just a vessel but a repository of lived experience.

Her recent works incorporate recurring motifs drawn from the mundane. Mannequins,

scarecrows, and raven silhouettes are subtly transformed into psychological markers,

prompting viewers to re-engage with what is often overlooked. This perspective finds affinity

with Martin Heidegger’s notion that everyday existence is frequently forgotten until it is

disrupted, much like a stone unnoticed in one’s shoe until it shifts underfoot. Kueis reimagines

allegory as disruptions, gently unsettling the familiar to reveal what is typically unseen.